that which develops itself as the sympathy of class, becomes in America the general sentiment of society....

We present an imposing front to the world; but let us tear the picture and look at the canvas.
One out of every seven of us is a pauper.

Every six Englishmen have, in addition to their other enormous burdens, to support a seventh between them, whose life is spent in consuming, but in adding nothing to the source of their common subsistence." British governing classes then, forgoing after 1850 opposition to the advance of American power, found themselves involved again, as before 1832, in the problem of the possible influence of a prosperous American democracy upon an unenfranchised public opinion at home.

Also, for all Englishmen, of whatever class, in spite of rivalry in power, of opposing theories of trade, of divergent political institutions, there existed a vague, though influential, pride in the advance of a people of similar race, sprung from British loins[25].

And there remained for all Englishmen also one puzzling and discreditable American institution, slavery--held up to scorn by the critics of the United States, difficult of excuse among her friends.
Agitation conducted by the great philanthropist, Wilberforce, had early committed British Government and people to a crusade against the African slave trade.